Real Estate
Why Planning Is Vital For Long-Term Property Investments
In preparation for our recent move to Paris, my husband Harry and I had a plan. Because we were visiting...
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We’ve Entered The Golden Age For Global Property Investing
We've been beating this drum lately, but I'll make the point here again, one more time, for the record: We...
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What To Look For In A Rental Management Agency Overseas
Any global real estate investment portfolio should include at least one rental property. A rental investment won't make you rich,...
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6 Steps To A Successful Overseas Property Investment
The advantages and rewards of buying and owning property overseas are greater right now than ever before in our lifetime....
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Top Countries Where U.S. Dollars Get You A Big Discount
If you're holding U.S. dollars, 2019 is the best year in a long time for harnessing your buying power abroad....
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Why I Focus On Real Estate Price And Not Exchange Rate
I don’t usually pay attention to exchange rates on a daily basis. However, being in Europe for the last month,...
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Some Helpful Tips Before You Buy Real Estate In Portugal
While I feel very lucky to wake up every day in my new Portuguese home, it took more than good...
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Read This If You’re Thinking Of Buying Or Renting In Portugal
As one of the most unassuming countries of Europe today, it’s easy to forget the power trip that Portugal enjoyed...
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Our Adventure Retiring And Buying A Home In Tavira, Portugal
When my husband and I decided we wanted to move to the Algarve... and then further decided that we wanted...
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Why A Farm In Portugal Should Be Your Next Investment
As they say, it can be better to be lucky than to be smart. Best case, of course, is when...
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Portugal Investments Offering Up Profit And Peace Of Mind
Driving from Lisbon to Lagos yesterday afternoon, as I’ve done several times in the past when coming to the Algarve...
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How I Escaped The 9-To-5 And Found My Dream Life Overseas
Looking back, I can see that 2011 was one of the biggest turning points in my life. Little did I...
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Welcome To “Little Miami”! Life As An Expat In Salinas, Ecuador
Until 2008, Salinas and this country’s coast were part of Guayaquil Province. As a result, the coast was largely overlooked....
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Where To Find The Best Real Estate Buys In Portugal
Broad market statistics show that property prices in Portugal bottomed out in the first quarter of 2015. I bought an...
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10 Best Places To Buy Real Estate Overseas In 2019
In today's complicated world, international property stands out among investment options because it is both a hard asset and one...
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Fortaleza, Brazil: Earn 18% To 20% Return On Your Investment
Generally speaking, a successful residential rental investment will give you net yields of between 5% and 8% a year. I've...
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Find Out The Top 5 Panama Property Markets In 2019
The death of Panama’s property market has been rumored for the last 10 years at least. Starting in 2003 and...
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Inventive Developers Identify Niche Market In Panama City
One Panama City developer has identified a real estate market niche that no other developer has noticed. I think of...
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How We Choose An Overseas Property Investment
At lunch yesterday, a friend in town for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference broke out his phone and started...
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How To Rent Or Buy Real Estate In Unregulated Markets Overseas
Rum and real estate don’t mix. You want to be sober when considering property purchase options in a foreign land....
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Things To Consider When Investing In Properties Overseas
If you purchase a piece of real estate in another country, should you have the ownership documents issued in your...
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How My Overseas Investments Kept Me Safe From Crisis
I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could do it—and lost...
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The 6 Best Markets For Investing In 2019
Yesterday, Lief Simon shared his picks for top property investment markets in 2019. Today, I'd like to share mine... Brazil...
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Global Property Investment 101: Where To Start
If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...
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9 Reasons Why Real Estate Overseas Is A Great Investment
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...
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Final Chance To Invest In Aquaponics Before The Price Rises
Agricultural production using aquaponics technology is on the rise… and so is the cost of investing in the opportunity that...
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Why Portugal Is Europe’s Easiest Place To Finance Property
Where in the world can you obtain bank financing as a foreigner for the purchase of real estate? I get...
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4 Amazing Properties In The Seaside Town Of Salinas, Ecuador
In 2013, I visited Ecuador as part of my personal search for an overseas home. After attending the Live and...
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Agricultural Investment: Relax And Watch Your Profits Grow
In your new life overseas, you could support yourself by going to work for someone else... but who wants a...
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Low Cost Of Living And Great Lifestyle In Abruzzo, Italy
Abruzzo is fantastically cheap. You can eat like royalty here on a pittance. So much (pasta... wine... oil...) is produced...
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Find Out Where Money Grows On Trees For Up To 80 Years
2018 has been a great year for us global property investors... And it's not over yet. In fact, I'd say...
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Top 5 Global Investments To Suit Any Portfolio
At the Retire Overseas Conference we hosted a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the question I was most frequently...
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3 Ways To Profit From Panama City’s Property Market
Panama City property values have been impressively resilient over the past 10 years. The global real estate crisis of 2008...
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How I Funded My Early Retirement With Overseas Real Estate
I bought a beachfront home, directly on the sand, for less than US$62,000. After furnishing the solid, 2,000-square-foot house, I...
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Exploring Abruzzo, Italy, To Find The Perfect Place To Live
The decision to buy a house in Abruzzo was an easy one for me—it was figuring out the exact location...
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A Placencia, Belize, Primer: Communities, Costs, And Condos
If Belize has been on your radar, focusing on Placencia couldn't come at a better time. Seventeen miles of white-sand...
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Why Panama City’s Property Market Is Unlike Anywhere Else
Over the weekend, Lief and I traveled from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where we hosted last week's Offshore Wealth Summit, to...
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Puerto Vallarta South: Tranquil Luxury And Enviable Views
Vallarta South—The Town Richard Burton Put On The Map The city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and its famous Centro and...
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Why My Property Portfolio Is Doubled Down On Diversification
Lief Simon’s Personal Global Property Investing Strategy As longtime readers know, 99% of my investment portfolio is in real estate....
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Top 4 Countries With Real Estate You Should Invest In Now
This Is How You Make Real Money From Real Estate Overseas Yesterday, Kathleen Peddicord laid out the phases of development an...
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The 5 Phases Of Ambergris Caye’s Changing Property Market
I've watched it play out scores of times over the more than three decades I've been paying attention... Demographics on...
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Introducing Durango: Bargain Real Estate In Authentic Mexico
The World’s Best Value Property Market? Durango is my favorite spot for full-time city living in Mexico. In fact, I...
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Italy’s Undiscovered Region That’s Massively Undervalued
Your Own Home In Italy… From 35,000 Euros… Considered the greenest part of Europe, with three national and five regional...
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Real Estate In Bogotá Is A Bargain: But For How Much Longer?
The Next Generation Effect In This Country Is Pushing Property Values Ever-Higher One of the best indicators of a healthy...
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Your Dream Italian Villa Is Now Affordable, Maybe Even Free
Your own medieval castle or Mediterranean villa... free. That's the promise of Italy's Cammini e Percorsi (Paths and Tracks) program,...
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Real Estate In Lisbon: A Golden Opportunity For A Golden Visa
Too Late For Lisbon? The question on many minds at last week's Live and Invest in Portugal Conference was whether...
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These Brazilian Beach Townhouses Can Net You 20% Returns
Net Up To 20% A Year From US$99K Beach Townhouses If you've been paying attention to what I've been reporting...
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Weighing Risk Vs Reward For Long-Term Subsidized Renters
I'm receiving emails and alerts daily from U.K. real estate promoters touting U.S. property investment opportunities to their British investor...
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Is Santo Domingo The World’s Next Big Property Market?
I visited Panama for the first time in early 2000. The United States had just handed over the Canal Zone...
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Buying Property In Paris Was One Of Our Best Decisions Ever
The Secret To Timing Your Overseas Property Purchase If I could live anywhere, where would I live? My answer to...
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